Shane: I had a similar question a few weeks ago as I was trying to get Draco and the Nant scripts working correctly.
The choices that others had presented where: 1) Put Nant in the same VSS Project Directory (sorry for the VSS terms when you are using subversion). Then, use relative pathing to address the structure of your source code. 2) Use the VSS tasks that come with Nant. The VSSGet task allows you to set locations, etc. Draco will still get your files to its temp directory, but, the build script will then get files and place them where you want (i.e., a "get" is done twice). I tried both methods, but ended up using option #1 (mostly due to the double get). Good Luck. I would like to talk to you about subversion some time and working with VS.NET, but, obviously this is not the list for that! Chuck -----Original Message----- From: Shane Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, November 27, 2003 9:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Draconet-users] Having a Specific Working Copy Directory... instead of checking out to a different place each time? Is it possible to tell Draco where to check the working copy of the source out to? Here is why I ask this... 1.) We version control Nant itself along with any custom Nant tasks we have written. We want the Build server to be using the latest version of Nant (along with our custom tasks) as we change it. It would be very easy to "upgrade" Nant on the build server if we had a controlled location to point to. 2.) We have a lot of our own source (and other things such as Nant, NDoc, NUnit, etc...) in source control. It is a lot of overhead to download all the source each time to a different location - especially if perhaps only a single file has changed. If the source was checked out to a common controlled location, only the diffs would be sent over the wire (instead of approximately 30meg for us). 3.) I understand that we can create our own tasks (we use Subversion... does anyone out there have any tasks for it??? :-) that can check out the source for us to a controlled location. This way, problems #1 and #2 would be essentially solved (well... not really). Now, however, there would be two source trees - 30 meg that Draco would get check out each time (to a different location) when a filed changed, and then the other tree would be checked out and maintained by the Nant tasks themselves (only sending diffs across the wire). This seems rather wasteful as source tree that Draco checked out would not be used. It would only be slowing everything down. Now, I also understand that this might have been by design to check out code to a different location as this ensures a totally clean build each and every time. This is a very nice feature for those who need to get up and running quickly. However, most people should take time to create a decent "clean" target that would allow a totally clean build without switching working directories... I like the idea of checking out to a separate location to ensure a clean build for some, however in our case (and probably many others...), it would be a nice thing to turn off and have a controlled working copy location. If Draco does not allow this currently, is this something that is in the works? Also, I am curious to see what other people's interest is in this... perhaps I am overlooking something and this is not a concern. If it is, perhaps I (and others) can help out. Respectfully, Shane --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.537 / Virus Database: 332 - Release Date: 11/6/2003 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Draconet-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/draconet-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Draconet-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/draconet-users
